All the materials of thinking are derived from our external or internal sensations Only the mixture and composition of these belongs to the spirit and the will Or, to express myself in philosophical language.. All our ideas, or weak perceptions, are back of our impressions or more lively perceptions, "Enquiry Concerning Human understanding, Hume Monument to David Hume in Edinburgh David Hume, while empiricist philosopher, argue that all knowledge comes from experience, whether external experience (which comes from the organs sensory) or intimate experience (self-experience). In this line, the work of Hume, aims to examine on an analysis of the facts of experience (what we now call "psychic facts"), which called the spirit perceptions, understanding …show more content…
Since memory is not an original state but derived an impression, something similar happens with fantasy about the future. "By the term impression I mean it, all our more lively perceptions cuand hear or see or palpate or love and hate or desire or want And impressions are distinguished from ideas -. They are the less lively perceptions that are conscious when we reflect on any of those sensations or movements above "Enquiry Concerning Human understanding, Hume Hume will add that both ideas and impressions can be complex or simple your time as will decompose or not. In sínteis, for Hume, all our knowledge derived directly ora, ora indirect impressions. Even the most complex ideas, at least those at first examination, it seems more remote from the sensitivity. A detailed examination, we always refer to the origin of such ideas is in a print. Hume says, for example, that one can get an idea of a golden mountain and could believe that is an original production of one's mind, however, is only operated by a combination of the mind from the idea of gathering and another mountain, ideas derived from previous